All the King's Men (2006)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.0/10   

Réalisateur:

Steven Zaillian

Writers (WGA):

Steven Zaillian (screenplay)
Robert Penn Warren (novel)

Release Date:

22 septembre 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Thriller

Accroche:

Time brings all things to light.

Plot:

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

Plot Keywords:

Shot Repeatedly | Struggle | Box Office Flop | Rise And Fall | Offscreen Suicide By Gunshot

Avis des utilisateurs:

Toronto Film Festival: All The King's Men

Ensemble

Sean Penn	...	Willie Stark
Jude Law	...	Jack Burden
Anthony Hopkins	...	Judge Irwin
Kate Winslet	...	Anne Stanton
Mark Ruffalo	...	Adam Stanton
Patricia Clarkson	...	Sadie Burke
James Gandolfini	...	Tiny Duffy
Jackie Earle Haley	...	Sugar Boy
Kathy Baker	...	Mrs. Burden
Talia Balsam	...	Lucy Stark
Travis Champagne	...	Tom Stark (as Travis M. Champagne)
Frederic Forrest	...	Willie's Father (as Frederic F. Forrest)
Paul Desmond	...	Slade
Kevin Dunn	...	Alex
Thomas McCarthy	...	Editor (as Tom McCarthy)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Spiel der Macht, Das (Germany)
Fous du roi, Les (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for an intense sequence of violence, sexual content and partial nudity.

Durée:

128 min

Pays:

Germany | USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc | Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Classification:

Ireland:12A | Singapore:PG | USA:PG-13 (certificate #41471) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Germany:12 | Finland:K-11 | UK:12 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Albania Plantation - 1842 LA 182 E., Jeanerette, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Anecdotes:

Writer/director Steven Zaillian never saw the original film, and adapted the screenplay solely from Robert Penn Warren's novel.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the first scene with Willie and Lucy talking to Jack, Willie and Lucy are drinking Orange Pop with clear bottles, but when the shot changes the bottles change to brown glass bottles.

Guillemet:

Adam Stanton: What is my weakness?
Jack Burden: You can't look at something that's broke without having to fix it.
Adam Stanton: Why is that a weakness? WHY IS THAT A WEAKNESS?
Jack Burden: It makes you do things you don't wanna do.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst of 2006" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Long Gone Lonesome Blues

Toronto Film Festival: All The King's Men

Director Steven Zaillian presented Toronto with a (sort of) remake of 1949's ''All The King's Men''. Featuring Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and much others, the movie is a political drama about an electing governor (Sean Penn) that becomes corrupted with his own power. Jude Law plays Jack Burden, a newspaper columnist.

Zaillian, however, seems to be the wrong man for this adaptation. Writer of marvelous movies, such as ''Schindler's List'' and ''Gangs of New York'', Zaillian makes this ''Men'' all wrong. The film is obnoxiously pointless and also features many miscasts. The dialogue is bad (surpisingly, Zaillian wrote the script himself) and there are scenes that are nothing but useless.

Sean Penn is the most outrageous miscast in the picture. His performance is filled with rage from the start. That would be a good thing if the movie's intention were to make the audience frightened right away. However, he was supposed to play a man that might sound fair and right at first, and then go all the way in corruption. However, Penn acts as if he were the devil himself. In several ways, he reminded me of Pacino in ''The Devils Advocate''. And this is the only situation where it is a bad thing.

The soundtrack is great, I enjoyed it a lot, and the movie has some good scenes. Jude Law and Kate Winslet are good in the roles given. Anthony Hopkins is great. And that is about it for the movie's ups.

It is shocking how a movie that had everything to be a major Oscar contender to fail so miserably. In fact, this is the authentically Oscar bait. A movie with a lot of fuzz, but no content.---5/10